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00:31 Welcome again to the 3ABN Australia Homecoming 2019, 00:36 welcome Dr. Allan. 00:37 It's wonderful to be here Rosemary. 00:39 Did you learn a lot from Dr. Ashton? 00:42 I learned a great deal from Dr. Ashton... yes. 00:44 I know, I've got to put it all up here so I don't forget 00:47 but now, we have Sandra Entermann 00:51 and Brayden Entermann, her nephew, 00:54 and Joe Tyler and Samia Eteski 00:58 are going to present the special item 00:59 and they're doing, "In the Heart of Jesus" 01:03 and then, Dr. Ross Grant is going to be giving us 01:08 a really informative message called, 01:10 "Who Are the Healthiest Populations on Earth?" 01:14 That's wonderful, I had the privilege of teaching Ross 01:17 many years ago at Avondale College, 01:20 great to see him here today. 01:22 His key text... what is it? 01:24 The key text that he has chosen is Proverbs 3 verses 5 and 6, 01:29 "Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; 01:32 and lean not unto thine own understanding. 01:35 In all thy ways acknowledge Him, 01:38 and He will direct your paths. " 01:41 Let us bow our heads. 01:43 Dear loving Father, we thank you again 01:45 for the wonderful opportunity we have today 01:48 to listen to Dr. Ross. 01:49 We thank you for his many years of service 01:52 and we thank you for his interest in health 01:54 and as he speaks to us today 01:56 about who are the healthiest populations on earth, 01:59 we pray for your blessing upon him 02:01 and give him Your Holy Spirit 02:03 and direct each word that it may bring us encouragement 02:06 and better health 02:08 and we ask this in Jesus' precious name, amen. " 02:11 Pause... 02:24 Music... 02:40 In the heart of Jesus 02:44 There is love for you, 02:49 Love most pure and tender, 02:53 Love most deep and true; 02:57 Why should you be lonely, 03:02 Why for friendship sigh, 03:08 When the heart of Jesus 03:12 Has a full supply? 03:20 Music... 03:32 In the mind of Jesus 03:35 There is thought for you, 03:40 Warm as summer sunshine, 03:44 Sweet as morning dew; 03:49 Why should you be fearful, 03:53 Why take anxious thought, 03:59 Since the mind of Jesus 04:04 Cares for those He bought? 04:10 Music... 04:15 In the home of Jesus 04:19 There's a place for you; 04:24 Glorious, bright, and joyous, 04:27 Calm and peaceful, too; 04:32 Why then, like a wanderer, 04:37 Roam with weary pace, 04:43 If the home of Jesus 04:47 Holds for you a place? 04:54 Music... 05:12 Audience: Amen. 05:15 Pause... 05:24 Well, Good Afternoon everybody. 05:27 Audience: Good Afternoon. 05:30 It is a privilege to get an opportunity 05:33 to be able to talk to an audience about something 05:35 I feel passionate about 05:36 and it is about health. 05:38 Now, one of the things I feel a little bit concerned with 05:42 is, that you guys have done extremely well 05:44 by sitting for at least the last three hours. 05:47 Audience: Laughter. 05:48 And they tell me that if you don't... 05:50 if you sit for more than three hours a day, 05:54 it will significantly reduce your life. 05:57 Audience: Laughter. 05:59 So, you might want to think about standing up 06:01 and doing something 06:02 but hopefully not while I'm giving the talk, 06:03 we'll let you have another hour for that. 06:05 But who are the healthiest populations on earth? 06:08 It's a good question. 06:10 A lot of people ask... 06:12 particularly as they start getting older 06:14 and as they get more gray hair, 06:15 it's certainly of more of an interest to me 06:17 but it is an important question 06:19 because, whatever they are doing, 06:21 these people who are living a long time... 06:24 you kind of want to repeat the same thing, 06:26 or at least encourage others to do the same thing. 06:28 Now, I know you had a little bit of heads up 06:30 on some of this potentially by one of the earlier Speakers, 06:33 but let's just go through a couple of things. 06:35 Being aside as one of the things I don't like to do 06:38 is necessarily get the information first, 06:40 I think we can work it out first of all 06:43 so I think that we can predict potentially 06:45 who the longest people on earth are likely to be 06:48 if we know a couple of things. 06:49 Number one: What the body needs for health. 06:54 So, before we sort of unveil who these longest-lived people are, 06:58 it's a good idea for us to think about 07:00 what health is really needed, 07:01 What do we actually need for health? 07:03 And then, the second thing is, 07:06 "If we know what we need for health, 07:08 then we can find populations that are essentially doing it. " 07:10 Does that make sense? 07:12 All right. 07:13 So, what do we need? 07:15 If we want to maintain health within the body, 07:17 it's really a balance and it's something... 07:20 it's a balance that we do every day, 07:21 and the body is working towards two things, 07:23 between Number 1: 07:25 The capacity of the body to repair the damage 07:28 because just being alive actually damages you. 07:31 So, all of us actually start to age... 07:34 it might sound surprising... 07:36 even a baby is actually starting to age, 07:38 they are accumulating damage 07:40 even as they grow into adulthood. 07:41 And then, of course, 07:43 the capacity of the body to repair that damage 07:46 is the other thing. 07:47 So, how much damage we're doing? 07:48 And then how the body actually repairs that damage... 07:51 it's a balance between those two. 07:52 So, of course, if you want to live a long time, 07:55 you want to minimize what's damaging the body 07:57 and you want to maximize 08:00 what is sustaining or keeping the body healthy 08:02 and it's good to keep that in mind 08:04 because actually a lot of people think, 08:06 "Oh, just a little bit of this is okay... 08:08 as long as I do a lot of this other stuff. " 08:09 Well, everything you do actually has an impact 08:13 on whether you're accumulating damage 08:15 or you're actually assisting the body 08:17 to maintain health and repair. 08:18 So, it's a dynamic thing 08:21 so, what does the body actually need? 08:22 Well, the number one thing that we need... 08:24 we need, first of all, some raw materials, 08:26 we need some nutrition... 08:28 things that go in to make the body what it is, 08:29 so, water, vitamins, minerals... 08:31 we need some carbohydrates, 08:34 we need to be able to make proteins, 08:35 these are all the things that make the machinery of the body 08:38 and we've just heard an excellent presentation 08:40 on some of the complex machinery that the body makes. 08:43 It would be fascinating to give you a little insight 08:46 into some of that 08:47 because this body... 08:48 if it was run by possibly some of our major Tech Companies, 08:53 wouldn't operate. 08:54 You know, if Microsoft had the... 08:57 had the rights to actually the human body, 08:59 it would keep breaking down, correct? 09:01 Audience: Yes. 09:02 And yet, the body is extremely more complicated than that. 09:06 What a fascinating body we have 09:08 but we need to put nutrients in this 09:10 so, we've got some control over that. 09:12 We need to give some activity to it, so we need to have... 09:14 you know, we need to move the muscles, we know about that, 09:16 and we actually need to move the brain as well. 09:18 We need to exercise it. 09:19 A bit different to doing muscles 09:21 and we need to also challenge the immune system. 09:23 There are reasons why at the moment we are thinking 09:26 that some of the increase in some of the allergies 09:29 is because we probably haven't challenged the immune system 09:31 early enough 09:32 and there's a lot of links to gut health 09:34 and that type of thing as well. 09:35 So, we do need activity... our body needs that activity. 09:38 We also need time for rest and repair, 09:42 and particularly in a fast-paced world, 09:45 there is often a restriction on some of those 09:48 "Rest-and-Repair" things. 09:50 We don't get enough time to rest... to relax... 09:52 and even to sleep. 09:54 We'll look at that a little bit more later on. 09:55 Of course, we need oxygen. 09:58 Without oxygen... and we just found that we get oxygen 10:02 from having things like photosynthesis 10:04 splitting it from the water molecule 10:05 which is fantastic 10:07 but we need that oxygen for a variety of different reasons 10:10 and not just... 10:12 it's not that easy actually to get it into the body 10:14 and around the body. 10:15 We'll look at that a little bit later too 10:17 and in sun exposure... 10:18 there's some fantastic thing that sun does for us, 10:21 and we've got to avoid some of the things 10:23 that can cause the body some damage. 10:25 We put a lot of stuff into the body 10:27 and while I won't get a lot of opportunity 10:30 to tell you about it this afternoon, 10:31 some of the things I will mention... 10:33 some of the things naturally damage. 10:36 You can think about some of these things, 10:37 in fact, when you think about ways 10:39 of being able to sterilize a benchtop, 10:41 we will often use alcohol to do that 10:44 and then, people are surprised when we tell them 10:47 how much damage certain molecules like that 10:49 going into the body can actually do. 10:51 So, avoiding those toxins 10:53 and then, finally, there's this psycho-social element. 10:56 We're not just a package of bio-chemicals... 10:59 we are actually social beings, 11:02 we have that concept of needing to be too able to engage 11:05 with somebody else in a meaningful way 11:07 and as our previous Speaker was saying, 11:09 that was just talking about how we need to... 11:11 there's part of us... 11:13 something that is retained in the mind... 11:15 something that connects with others. 11:17 That's psycho-social relationship 11:19 so, if we have a look at minimizing what damages the body 11:21 we look at the things that do damage... 11:24 alcohol... tobacco... the energy-rich foods... 11:27 psychological stress, 11:29 toxins... mechanical... microbes... 11:32 anything that switches the immune system on 11:34 and leaves it on 11:36 and then, you've got things that help the body 11:37 which we'll talk about in a little bit... 11:39 the omega 3s... phytonutrients, minerals, 11:42 plenty of water... rest, adequate sunshine... 11:45 exercise... and a good social engagement. 11:48 It is a balance between those two 11:51 and you can decide whether you add to one side 11:53 or add to the other side. 11:56 So, what are some of the benefits of exercise? 12:00 Now, I know everybody in the room here... 12:01 of course, we live in a country like Australia 12:03 where we are encouraged to get up and exercise. 12:05 As I mentioned, 12:06 if you're sitting down for more than three hours a day, 12:08 it's been shown to significantly reduce longevity 12:11 and linked to a whole host of things. 12:13 Some people are talking about it 12:14 as potentially being the "new smoking" 12:16 is the "new sitting" 12:17 but if you get to exercise... 12:19 and that doesn't necessarily mean you go out 12:21 and run a marathon, 12:23 but it does mean that you move. 12:24 It actually increases the perfusion of blood 12:27 through the different tissues 12:28 so once you start moving and doing a walk around the block 12:31 or something like that, 12:32 blood starts to flow into some of the tissue 12:34 that wasn't getting some of that access 12:36 and because this tissue is alive... those cells are alive, 12:39 they're needing to get rid of some of the rubbish 12:41 that they generated 12:42 you know, the little factories... 12:44 and the little factories generating some of this 12:47 by-products... you need to get rid of it. 12:49 Exercise helps that perfusion... 12:50 flush those toxic chemicals out of the body. 12:53 It also helps to create some forces 12:55 on different parts of our joints 12:57 and when we do that, 12:59 that actually stimulates those joints to get stronger 13:02 so, it actually stimulates our muscles... 13:04 prevents things like Osteoporosis, 13:06 helps to maintain muscle density as we get older, 13:09 we maintain that balance... 13:11 all very important for stimulating growth. 13:14 It also increases our need for energy. 13:16 Now, most of us would know that we need energy 13:20 and in the form, some of you would know it as ATP. 13:22 Now most of you would know from High School Biology 13:25 that's actually produced in a... 13:26 a little part of the cell called the mitochondrion. 13:29 Did you know that the body can produce more mitochondrion? 13:33 The more exercise you do, 13:35 the more mitochondrion the body produces per cell 13:38 because it knows it needs to generate more energy. 13:41 So, if you exercise more, 13:43 the body will produce more mitochondrion 13:46 so, it can produce more energy. 13:47 Guess what? 13:49 That increases what's called your Basal Metabolic Rate. 13:52 When you increase your Basal Metabolic Rate, 13:55 it means that actually you burn fats and sugars faster and more 14:02 so, potentially, you can enjoy even eating more. 14:05 Audience: Happy. 14:06 It's a good thing. 14:08 So it increases the mitochondria... 14:10 increases energy use 14:11 and as a result, reduces some of those fuels... 14:14 so it reduces some of the fats that are floating around, 14:16 and the fats you might have stored up for a rainy day, 14:19 they tend to go as well, 14:20 and it helps to improve things like blood sugar et cetera 14:24 so, increases the oxygen consumption. 14:26 Now, some people would tell us, 14:29 "Well, I don't exercise because I know when I exercise, 14:32 it produces free radicals... " 14:33 what we call oxidative stress, 14:35 more free radicals and that's got to be a bad thing. 14:37 It is true, oxidative stress or free radicals actually age you 14:42 so you go, "Well, shouldn't I... 14:43 I should stop exercising then 14:45 because that increases my oxidative stress. " 14:46 Well, if you exercise for say your half-an-hour or one hour, 14:50 yes, you use more oxygen.. it generates more free radicals 14:54 but you're getting a lot of other positives 14:57 and what the body does is adapt to that. 14:59 It has what we call a cellular adaptive response, 15:03 it actually produces more anti-oxidants. 15:05 Now, the anti-oxidants actually keep you then healthy 15:09 and protects the body from all of these toxic chemicals 15:12 not only just for that one hour while you're exercising 15:15 but does it actually for the next 23 hours. 15:18 So, you're actually protected much more 15:20 because your anti-oxidant capacity is higher. 15:23 Makes sense? 15:24 So exercise... very good for us. 15:27 We also get some psychological benefits. 15:30 So, it reduces the stress response... 15:32 you know when you feel stressed and particularly in Sydney here, 15:35 we have issues of being caught in traffic 15:38 and various other things 15:40 and there's a stress that goes along with that 15:42 and when you're sitting in that, the body wants to do something 15:44 and your heart rate goes up and your blood pressure goes up 15:47 but guess what you're still doing? 15:49 Sitting. 15:50 Not much is happening... 15:52 that's stimulating what we call the hypothalamic pituitary 15:54 adrenalin access. 15:56 Now, the best way of being able to reduce that 15:59 is actually getting out and exercising. 16:01 Now, that's not to say, 16:02 that you stop at the lights and exercise... 16:04 to go and talk to the guy who is just doing it. 16:06 No, you wait till you get home and go and exercise... 16:09 go and walk around the block or something 16:10 maybe even before you go into the family 16:12 but exercise is a great way of dropping that stress response. 16:16 There is another way that you can do it. 16:19 You can eat lots of fat and sugar 16:22 and it's been shown that actually having 16:25 fatty sugary foods... what we call "Comfort foods" 16:27 actually helps to reduce the stress response. 16:30 Pause... 16:32 The trouble is, that you get a lot of negatives with that too, 16:33 is that right? 16:35 So, actually, the best way is to go out and exercise... 16:37 do some exercise 16:39 and then it reduces the stress response, 16:41 and actually reduces your desire for food... 16:44 where stress on its own stimulates your desire 16:47 particularly for the fatty and sugary foods 16:49 which has got a lot of negatives. 16:52 So, it reduces the desire for food... 16:55 activates the reward pathway... 16:56 so, there is a little reward pathway 16:59 that you get out of that. 17:00 Most people get that hit... 17:02 not everyone gets it. 17:04 So, unfortunately, 17:06 there are some people who don't get that little kick 17:10 in the endorphins 17:11 and there is actually one of our previous Premiers... 17:16 it was mentioned to me one day... 17:19 as we were actually doing one of these fun runs 17:22 and I was just mentioning how well he looked 17:24 and how he must get that nice little endorphin high 17:28 after he does his exercise, he says, 17:30 "You know what?" 17:31 He says, "I know a lot of other people get it 17:33 but virtually I don't get it, 17:34 I'm only doing it for my health. " 17:36 But I tell you, most of you will get it 17:38 and it is something that you do feel good... 17:40 it's a little bit like, 17:41 you know, once you've hit your thumb, 17:43 how good your thumb feels after you've stopped whacking it 17:45 but it's still very good for you. 17:47 Audience: Laughter. 17:49 All right, I thought it's worthwhile 17:50 just putting in how much physical activity 17:52 should we really do 17:54 and this comes from the Australian Guidelines 17:55 and it's a really good suggestion 17:56 doing any physical activity is better than doing none. 17:59 Does that make sense? 18:01 So, if you're thinking, "Ah look, I don't like exercise, 18:04 I'm not really into getting up and doing stuff... " 18:06 well, just hold on for a minute, 18:08 nobody is asking you to go for a massive marathon, 18:11 in fact, I'm not a jogger myself, 18:12 I like to do lots of other kinds of physical activity, 18:14 some people love jogging, 18:16 but just get up and walk, get up and move... 18:19 one of the great things is to be able to do that with the family 18:22 and we see that around our neighborhood now 18:24 and it's really nice because once you get out 18:27 and you start doing something, 18:28 you'll often talk 18:29 and it's a great way of sort of re-engaging 18:32 with family for that air, 18:33 so you get some psycho-social benefit 18:34 as well as the physical benefit. 18:36 So, any amount is good. 18:38 Try and be active on most days of the week 18:41 and, in fact, on every day if you can, 18:43 and the suggestion is that you're accumulating 18:46 between a half to one hour a day. 18:49 Now, as long as you're doing some good moderate exercise, 18:52 getting the face a little bit flushed 18:54 during part of that exercise, 18:56 then, that's probably good enough... 18:58 getting up to an hour is great 19:00 but it's not a great huge amount of benefit there, 19:02 and that moderate intensity, 19:04 as I said... just getting that flushing going... 19:07 pause... 19:09 and the idea... now a lot of people are actually 19:12 generally engaged with movement, 19:14 but what we've got to remember too is that 19:17 we want to do some strength training 19:18 so things that will actually cause us to use our muscles 19:21 and strength training 19:23 so, rather than just doing the walking or the jogging, 19:26 actually the strength training is necessary 19:28 and a lot of people have forgotten that 19:30 about two days a week 19:32 and it's really good both for males and females, 19:34 helps to balance hormones, 19:36 you actually increase some of the hormones you need, 19:38 drops away some of the things you don't... 19:39 again, good for stress... 19:41 also helps to increase what we call 19:43 "Brain-derived-neurotrophic factor... " 19:45 not one you need to remember 19:46 but actually stimulates things that are good for the brain. 19:50 So, it actually puts the brain into a better space. 19:53 You can get that from both the aerobic exercise 19:56 as well as the strength training 19:57 but both of them do it. 19:59 Pause... 20:01 Now, most people would tend to think to themselves 20:04 and I've heard it, 20:06 "Oh, I've just had something... " 20:07 they call it "naughty" 20:09 but you then might have eaten something 20:10 that was sugary and fatty, 20:12 "Now, that's okay, I'll go for my jog this afternoon. " 20:14 Now, they might be able to get rid of some of the fats there, 20:17 or some of the sugar... 20:19 some of the carbohydrates that they overdid on, 20:21 but has it really been good for them? 20:23 It's a good thing to remember, 20:25 exercise stimulates but it doesn't nourish. 20:28 Audience: Hmmm... 20:30 Exercise stimulates but it doesn't nourish. 20:33 The only way you can get the food... the nutrients... 20:37 the raw material that the body needs to stay healthy, 20:40 is by what you put in your mouth. 20:42 So, exercise stimulates but it doesn't nourish. 20:46 What we eat... that's the only way 20:47 that we can get all of the elements 20:49 that the body needs for health. 20:51 So, physical activity... 20:52 though it's beneficial to the body 20:54 and really beneficial to the body, 20:56 it provides no nutrients 20:58 and actually creates a metabolic stress 21:00 as I mentioned before, 21:01 requiring the availability of lots of nutrients, 21:04 you actually need lots of Vitamin Bs 21:07 and you need Calcium and you need Magnesium 21:10 and you need a whole lot of things 21:11 in order for the body to repair itself 21:13 given the amount of damage that you've just done to it. 21:16 Pause... 21:18 So, what does the body need for nutrients? 21:20 Let's have a look at some of those, 21:22 so we need fuel... now the professional fuels for the body: 21:24 Carbohydrates... that's like the sugars... 21:26 and it's all the things that you get from complex carbohydrates 21:30 and things like breads and pastas and that type of stuff, 21:34 the fats... they're not so much of professional source 21:37 but they're a professional storage source... 21:39 so they're the ones that sort of kick in afterwards, 21:41 all right, so, fats are good for you 21:43 but in limited quantities. 21:45 The building materials... 21:46 that's the proteins and the amino acids. 21:48 Now, we've got some diets that are kind of pushing the proteins 21:51 at the moment, trying to get you into 21:52 places where you can reduce some of the... 21:56 the use of carbohydrates so you can reduce weight. 21:59 Just remember that too much protein itself 22:01 can cause damage 22:03 and while I won't mention it any further, 22:05 I will mention very briefly that proteins have been linked... 22:09 too much protein or high proteins 22:11 have been linked to actually a lower length of life. 22:15 So, the longest lived populations tend to have 22:19 lower protein and also lower carbohydrate. 22:22 They thought of a little about carbohydrate previously 22:24 but more current research is actually suggesting 22:27 that it may actually be the protein 22:28 that's more important to reduce. 22:30 We need plenty of specialized components, 22:34 we need the vitamins... 22:35 and the body doesn't make vitamins 22:36 so it's got to get it from the diet 22:38 doesn't make the minerals, got to get those from the diet, 22:40 lot of the trace elements... got to get those from the diet 22:43 and the essential fatty acids, 22:45 now I know the marketing gurus have gone to town 22:47 on things like Omega 3 telling you how good they are 22:50 and so, there's tendency for most of us 22:52 to kind of discount it as simply marketing. 22:54 Well... well, some of the marketing 22:57 may not be entirely accurate, 22:58 Omega 3s are actually something the body cannot make 23:03 and we have a significant decrease 23:05 in our available food sources for Omega 3s. 23:08 We need Omega 3s... they are anti-inflammatory 23:11 and it's almost certain 23:13 that the largest percentage of the population 23:16 in this room, would be below their optimum level 23:18 in their Omega 3. 23:20 We've tested them for a number of years 23:22 analytically, we started off doing it 23:24 when we were looking at some research around depression 23:26 which is significantly linked to Omega 3 levels 23:28 and so, we've measured 100s of people now 23:30 and we can say that the majority of people are significantly low 23:34 so, keep that in mind... Omega 3s are actually important 23:37 and they help to resolve the inflammation 23:39 and, of course, we're starting to know a lot more about the gut 23:42 so, when we talk about some of the fibers that we need, 23:45 they're not just bulking agents, 23:47 they're actually important to be able to keep that garden 23:50 of very complex bacteria we've got... growing well 23:54 and making sure that they're giving us 23:56 the right kinds of things that our body needs. 23:58 So, fiber is important and then, of course, we have 24:02 this other section... what we call polyphenols 24:05 or phytonutrients... 24:07 and so, there are thousands of different chemicals in there 24:09 and they actually access the body in different ways, 24:12 we see them as red, orange, 24:14 green kind of colorings in our foods... 24:16 well, they're giving you some really complex things. 24:18 In fact, we have a little juice that we use 24:23 in a trial we are doing at the moment, 24:26 for people with marked impairment 24:28 but we know that it actually retains 24:31 a number of phytonutrients 24:32 that are actually very good for being able to assist 24:34 with the blood pressure, 24:35 and each one of our clients at the moment 24:37 have actually dropped their blood pressure by at least... 24:39 I think the lowest one was about six 24:42 but the highest one was about 15 millimeters mercury. 24:44 These are coming from a lot of these phytonutrients 24:46 that can be very useful for the body 24:50 in helping to be able to balance some of the other things 24:52 that are going on 24:54 and blood pressure being one of them. 24:55 Pause... 24:57 And of course, we need plenty of water 24:58 but we'll have a look at that just shortly. 24:59 So, eating any of those... if we'd miss out on any of those 25:04 then, we're going to get sick 25:06 and that's true, if we miss out on any of those, 25:08 we will get sick and unfortunately 25:10 if we just rely on carbohydrate, fat and sugar, 25:13 we won't get the other stuff and all we will do... add weight 25:17 and then unfortunately sends us into a place that makes us sick. 25:20 So, we end up with lots of things 25:23 potentially Diabetes, Heart Disease, 25:25 Cancer, Stroke, Dementia, 25:27 all of those are significantly linked. 25:30 Let me just give a little example here, 25:33 There was an Ad a little while ago... 25:35 this is not a picture of them specifically 25:38 but it was a Company that put out... 25:40 they had their Blueberry muffins 25:42 and they had a slogan... "Go ahead, treat yourself. " 25:44 Well, that's a good idea, you think, "Blueberry muffins... 25:47 there's got to be something good in there. " 25:49 So you then have a look at the nutrient dial 25:51 for the Blueberry muffins 25:53 and essentially, what you end up with... 25:56 lots of calories... 25:58 fat, carbohydrates are essentially sugars, 26:02 little bit of protein and salt. 26:04 Now, there's not much else that's in there... 26:07 little bit of Vitamin C there, 26:09 a tiny bit of Vitamin C but not much else 26:11 so, you got fat, sugar and salt. 26:13 Yes, you're going to treat yourself... 26:16 yes, because that fat and sugar is going to give you 26:19 that little bit of... little bit of a spurt in the brain 26:21 so you will like that, 26:23 but has it done much for your body? 26:25 Is there anybody here who is low in fat, sugar and salt? 26:28 Audience: Laughter. 26:30 Do we need to add that to the diet? 26:31 I won't make any comments but I suspect not. 26:34 So, in terms of what the body needs, 26:36 have we given it what the body needs? 26:39 We haven't... so we've probably contributed more 26:42 and we continue for reasons that the biochemistry uses 26:46 that fat and sugar when it's got too much, 26:48 it actually has to do some... 26:50 some bit of shuffling with the biochemistry 26:53 and ends up producing a few more free radicals 26:55 as a result of that extra calories that you've taken in 26:59 and so it actually hurts the... the body. 27:01 So, you can burn off that excess energy 27:03 in one-and-a-half kilometers if you decided to go for a run 27:06 but unfortunately you've also stressed the body 27:09 by giving it that high sugar hit and provided no nutrients 27:13 to help the body repair the damage 27:14 caused by that sugar hit 27:16 and then you've got the additional hit 27:19 by exercising on top of it. 27:20 Now, while the exercise itself has some benefits, 27:23 you can see that it's also done some damage and damage 27:26 and you've given nothing like what the body actually needed 27:29 with all the nutrients to help repair that, correct? 27:32 Pause... 27:34 So, as Anthony Balduzzi makes a comment 27:37 in, "The Fit Father Project" but it's a great quote 27:41 and he says, "It's absolutely impossible 27:43 to 'out-exercise' a bad diet. " 27:45 Now, you could instead, make some Oatmeal Blueberry Pancakes 27:52 which themselves is made from some whole grains, 27:55 and there are a lot of other things in there, 27:57 now, while it's not something that you would necessarily 27:59 live on every day, 28:01 the point is that you're getting much less calories 28:03 because you've got a lot more fiber going in there, 28:06 you've got a little bit of fat... 28:07 fraction of what the other one had, 28:09 yes, you've got some carbohydrates 28:11 but in this case, it's about a third, 28:12 you've got a little bit of protein, 28:14 good for the body... 28:15 and your sodium is also significantly less, 28:18 but then, you've also got a bunch of other vitamins 28:20 and minerals that are coming in there additionally. 28:22 So, the key thing is, 28:25 if you really want to treat yourself, 28:27 there's nothing wrong with having something that's tasty. 28:31 There's nothing wrong with having something that you enjoy 28:34 but if you make it as a whole food, 28:36 bring it in as a whole food... 28:38 and prepare the whole food, 28:40 the body actually gets the nutrients it needs 28:43 in order to continue to work well, 28:45 and to compare even some of the damage that might be occurring. 28:47 So, if you want to do the best for the body, 28:50 think of what nutrient is actually going in 28:53 not just what satisfies the appetite 28:56 and if you got nothing else from this afternoon, 28:58 that would be a key thing 29:00 and there are great recipes out there 29:02 and in fact, the broader community 29:05 certainly here in Australia has become extremely 29:07 health conscious 29:09 and there are a lot of people out there 29:10 putting some terrific recipes 29:12 out on all sorts of range of things 29:14 which are themselves really very beneficial to the body 29:17 because of the amount of nutrients that you're getting 29:19 as well as satisfying the appetite. 29:21 So, meals made from whole food generally... 29:24 are the best option. 29:25 All right, let me ask a couple of things now, 29:29 when it comes to oxygen, we know that we need it. 29:32 We can survive about three minutes without oxygen. 29:35 Well, some people will say, 29:38 potentially even up to 7 or 8 minutes 29:40 but certainly damage starts occurring relatively soon 29:43 and particularly in the brain. 29:45 But there are times, 29:47 when people will actually stop breathing. 29:51 Now, I know a number of you might have heard of sleep apnea 29:54 and sleep apnea is probably one of the... 29:56 one of the worst ones, particularly as people get older 29:58 or they put on a little bit of weight 29:59 and when they're sleeping, have you ever heard them 30:00 sort of snore and then stop... 30:03 and then snore and then stop. 30:05 I remember being in the... 30:08 my wife and I were traveling through Europe at the time 30:10 and we had to sort of separate for this one night 30:13 to sleep in a... a youth hostel 30:14 and so, I was in with the... the gentlemen 30:17 and she was sleeping with the ladies. 30:19 I never want to repeat the experience. 30:21 Audience: Laughter. 30:22 But there was a gentleman on the bunk below me 30:26 and he just had a freight train going all night 30:29 and so fortunately I was able to listen to him 30:31 and when he stopped, he would be... 30:34 you know, snoring away... 30:35 and then, stops... 30:36 and then, as a result of that I'd be thinking, 30:39 "Now, do I have to jump down and jump on his chest 30:41 and get him going again?" 30:42 But then, fortunately he'd start again and he'd stop 30:45 but he was actually stopping 30:47 for probably two or three minutes at a time 30:49 all of which was very damaging for his brain, 30:51 is what we call the anoxia reperfusion injury... 30:53 it does a lot of free-radical damage to the brain 30:55 because the brain actually runs out of energy 30:57 for a variety of different reasons 30:59 when the oxygen comes back in 31:00 it gives this big boost 31:01 and a lot of free-radical damage is occurring. 31:03 So if there is a... 31:05 if you are your partner thinks that for some reason 31:07 there might be sleep apnea in the family, 31:09 then, you really need to go and see a doctor 31:11 so, you can get that treated, 31:13 extremely important because it damages the brain, 31:14 you feel fatigued the next day and that's not surprising, 31:18 because you haven't really rested the night, 31:20 we'll look more about that a little bit later, 31:22 increases your risk of Cardiovascular disease, 31:24 you're generating lots of free radicals. 31:26 Your brain doesn't work so well, so you need it 31:31 and also problems with the kidneys... 31:34 need to fill the lungs 31:35 so, the key thing is... particularly if it's sleep apnea 31:38 you definitely need to get that checked out. 31:40 But if you're sitting there in the pews or at work 31:43 and we've already talked about sitting a bit too long, 31:46 but often, people will sit slumped over, 31:48 and breathe shallowly... 31:50 tss... shwish... tss... sh... 31:52 unfortunately, that's also not filling your lungs, 31:55 that's also not oxygenating the blood, 31:58 so the oxygen-saturation goes down 32:00 and so the tissue, whether it's the brain 32:02 or muscles or heart of lungs or wherever else it is, 32:04 they're also not getting the oxygen 32:06 and so, potentially, they're also are little bit Apneic... 32:11 so good posture... 32:12 poor posture reduces oxygen saturation 32:15 and also potentially can predispose 32:17 to some of those things. 32:19 So, getting good deep breaths... good for you... 32:22 sitting or standing. 32:24 Now, when it comes to sleep, 32:26 I know there's probably not a person in the room 32:30 that hasn't had one bad night's sleep, 32:32 did you feel good after you've had poor sleep? 32:34 Nobody does... 32:36 and there's a reason for it because... we're like... 32:39 as we said in the beginning, we're like... 32:41 we're little complex factories 32:42 and what the body does, just like a factory, 32:44 what it does in the morning 32:46 is different to what it does in the afternoon 32:47 and what it does in the evening. 32:49 So you get the crew coming in in the morning, 32:50 they get all the factory working... 32:52 they get everything organized. 32:53 In a way, boom... the factory goes... 32:55 produces all of its products 32:56 and then, by the afternoon, it's starting to shut down... 32:59 the maintenance crew is starting to come in, 33:01 cuts down and cleans up all the debris... 33:03 and so, overnight... manage to restock all the shelves 33:05 or whatever was needed... 33:06 make sure everything was needed for the factory, 33:08 ready to go again the next day 33:09 and that's actually a bit what your body is like 33:12 which is why we have these called Biorhythms 33:15 or Circadian rhythms... 33:16 so the body is built on that kind of thing 33:19 and the biochemistry that's occurring in the morning, 33:21 is different to the biochemistry that's occurring 33:23 in the afternoon 33:25 and it's different to what's going at night. 33:26 But what's happening at night is not something that... 33:29 it's not just going to sleep, the brain hasn't gone to sleep, 33:31 it actually does a lot... 33:33 it actually decodes a lot of what happened during the day, 33:36 it helps to consolidate the memories, 33:38 and it helps to sift actually what's important and what's not. 33:41 There's a reason why if you don't get good sleep, 33:43 the next day, you're more stressed, 33:45 because actually, you didn't actually decode 33:47 what was the day before 33:48 and so, you're not actually interpreting well 33:50 what's going on during the day, 33:52 so, you will feel more stressed... 33:54 a lot less efficient. 33:55 So it organizes and integrates new information... 33:59 that's what we call memory 34:00 and that's why for students if they study... 34:02 coming up to the HSC or whatever it might be, 34:04 the best thing they can do is, get themselves a good sleep. 34:07 Of course, the next best is to study 34:09 and some don't always put those two together. 34:12 It improves what we call, Psycho-social health 34:15 because your relationships are going to be better. 34:17 There are other ways that we've... 34:19 Scientists have looked at Frontal Lobe 34:21 and that type of thing and it is really important 34:23 because for the Frontal Lobe to work, 34:25 you really need to be less... less stressed. 34:29 So, it also regulates a number of hormones... 34:32 so, growth hormone... melatonin... 34:34 that's the one that helps you sort of sleep... wake... 34:36 other things... the stress hormones 34:38 like Cortisol... 34:39 that should be high in the morning, 34:40 but it should be low in the evening. 34:42 If you're getting too stressed 34:44 and you're not relaxing enough in the evening, 34:46 Cortisol stays high in the evening 34:47 and the body doesn't really relax properly 34:49 and so, therefore, doesn't sleep very properly 34:52 and there are others that's associated with eating 34:54 like Leptin and Ghrelin... 34:55 both of them are linked to appetite, 34:57 and if you're too stressed and not getting enough sleep, 34:59 they stay high... you eat more. 35:02 Pause... 35:04 So, all sorts of things, 35:06 glucose, lipid metabolism are all associated, 35:09 so sleep disturbances negatively impact the hormonal rhythm 35:13 and so, if you're not getting enough sleep, 35:16 and you're wondering why you're putting on weight, 35:18 there's a reason. 35:20 Your hormones are unregulated or dis-regulated, 35:22 you've got a higher appetite, particularly the fats and sugars 35:25 you're also stressed 35:27 and the body is not handling the sugars and fats 35:29 the way it used to. 35:31 So, Obesity... 35:32 Insulin Insensitivity... 35:35 and Diabetes are closely linked... 35:36 Hormonal imbalances 35:38 both with the sex hormones 35:39 and well as some of the others I mentioned 35:40 like growth hormone, etc. 35:42 You've got appetite dis-regulation, 35:44 you are going to feel more hungry, generally speaking, 35:46 and so you will put on weight. 35:48 So that Circadian disruption often induced by shift work. 35:54 and I know that working in places like hospitals 35:56 where it's got to run for 24 hours a day... 35:59 there are patterns and there are techniques 36:01 that will actually allow you to stay in 36:04 or get into a Circadian rhythm. 36:05 There's a reason why, particularly health-care workers 36:09 it's been linked with a high risk 36:11 of a lot of the lifestyle diseases. 36:14 Heart disease, Diabetes, Dementia 36:16 and probably, a significant proportion of that 36:19 is associated with this "on-constantly" 36:22 or often being shifted out of good-dial rhythm 36:24 so, you're not getting the sleep particularly that's needed. 36:28 And we can show you very easily when we start doing some tests 36:31 and we test for certain things... 36:32 or what we call "Oxidative Stress" 36:33 but it's basically the amount of free-radical damage 36:36 that the body is kind of under. 36:37 When we see people's Oxidative Stress go up... 36:40 one of the first things we ask is... 36:41 how well they're actually sleeping. 36:44 So, it negatively impacts health 36:46 due to impaired glucose and lipid homeostasis 36:49 and reversed melatonin and cortisol pathway. 36:51 So, in other words, what's normally putting you to sleep 36:53 like Melatonin... doesn't work as well but Cortisol stays high 36:57 and so, you lose that nice rhythm. 37:00 Pause... 37:02 So, what about keeping the body nicely hydrated? 37:06 You know, we know we're 70% water... 37:08 brain is about 80%... 37:10 the body really needs water 37:13 and you can survive... we can say 37:16 between 3 to 7 minutes without oxygen, 37:19 well, we can survive about 3 to 7 days without water, 37:21 and if you extend that, it's easy to remember 37:24 about 3 to 7 weeks without food. 37:26 Of course, if you've laid down a little more for the future, 37:30 you might survive longer so there are advantages. 37:32 Audience: Laughter. 37:34 We need to drink plenty of water 37:36 and a lot of people forget to drink water. 37:38 You only need to be dehydrated by about 1 to 2% 37:42 and you'll actually start to feel it in tiredness 37:45 and also the ability of the brain to think. 37:48 So, another thing that's really important 37:51 and a lot of people think, 37:52 "Well, I just need to get more fluids" 37:53 so, what most people do when they feel tired, 37:55 particularly in a work-type situation, 37:57 hop up and they'll go and get their caffeine. 38:00 Go and get their coffee... come back... drink the coffee... 38:03 well, it's been known for a long time, 38:05 in fact, we do it to our... our students every year... 38:08 we get them to have basically the equivalent 38:13 of a couple of coffees 38:14 along with a couple of other diuretics... 38:17 these are our Medical Science students 38:18 so, they need to know what it feels like 38:20 when they're dishing out orders for diuretics... 38:24 we give them some diuretics 38:26 and we give them some coffee as well 38:27 and show them how much it actually stimulates 38:30 the need for actually going along and... 38:32 and relieving themselves of some of the excess fluid 38:35 that got into the body. 38:36 But it is actually a diuretic... it causes you to lose fluid 38:39 so, on the one hand 38:40 you might be thinking that you needed to get it... 38:42 on the other hand, 38:43 taking the caffeine has not only increased your diuresis 38:47 but it also increased your stress response, 38:49 so, it actually stimulates the HPA access. 38:52 The other thing that just happens 38:54 and we've just finished a study actually... just on Friday, 38:58 where we unmasked the results 39:00 of what we call a Placebo-Crossover Design, 39:02 double-blind... 39:04 where we actually looked at people getting caffeine 39:06 and there's... I know there are one or two people 39:07 in the room here who are actually part of that Study, 39:09 and we can show very clearly that the caffeinated... 39:13 just equivalent of one coffee 39:15 was enough to be able to reduce 39:17 some of the cognitive function 39:18 particularly associated with memory 39:20 and it significantly reduced it 39:22 and fascinating little study 39:25 so, what most people are doing 39:27 when they're trying to be productive, 39:28 is go out and get themselves coffee 39:30 when what they should be doing 39:31 is actually getting a good glass of water. 39:33 Water is excellent for you... it flushes the System... 39:37 it gets rid of a lot of those toxic elements... 39:39 actually gives you hydration... 39:40 there's really no negative with it. 39:43 So, other benefits of being hydrated... 39:45 it increases your basal metabolism... 39:47 so, stimulates your body's ability 39:49 to be able to use the energy 39:51 so, it actually helps to lose weight as well... 39:53 it reduces your appetite as well... 39:55 protects against kidney and bowel cancer, 39:57 and it may protect even against heart attacks 40:00 for a variety of reasons. 40:01 Now if we throw sunshine in there as well, 40:04 we all know it's good 40:05 and in fact, it's become a lot more popular 40:07 particularly around things... what we call Photo-biomodulation 40:10 or being able to have certain wavelengths of the sun 40:13 reaching the skin and doing a few things. 40:15 We know we get the Vitamin D so that's important. 40:17 A lot of people are actually low 40:19 particularly as society has sort of swung to very much 40:22 sort of being out of the sun 40:23 and if you have look at all the schools... 40:25 they're covered and the kids are wearing hats 40:26 and sleeves and everything 40:28 but we've also noted that the Vitamin D levels have dropped 40:30 and that's a problem 40:31 because Vitamin D is important for so many different things, 40:34 including bone health but also immune health 40:36 and even psychological health. 40:38 So, healthy bones... immune function 40:41 helps to resist things like Diabetes 40:43 and even potentially, there's a link with Cancer 40:46 though it's not necessarily causal 40:48 but some of the high latitudes 40:49 up in the high northern latitudes 40:52 that's been showing a link that the reduced sunlight 40:54 may be linked to a number of things 40:56 including some of the Cancers like Breast and Ovarian... etc. 40:59 So just something to keep in mind 41:01 maybe simply associated with the immune system 41:03 but we need to get adequate Vitamin D 41:06 so, getting some sunshine in there is important 41:08 particularly some of the wavelengths with the UV 41:11 so ultraviolet light... 41:13 we know too much is going to be bad for us 41:14 and particularly Australia... 41:16 we are the Skin-Cancer Capital of the world 41:18 we'd get too much sun as a community 41:21 but we don't want to go too far the other way 41:24 and not get enough 41:25 because it can be important for us 41:27 and particularly it's been linked to improvement... 41:30 certainly for Psoriasis... 41:31 I mean this is a T-Cell activated thing 41:33 and certainly the UV light is going to have a very good 41:35 benefit on that. 41:36 In fact, Omega 3s also have a good... 41:38 usually a very good result with people with Psoriasis. 41:42 But Multiple Sclerosis has been linked also, 41:44 so, not getting enough sun or not having enough sunlight 41:48 has been linked to an increased risk for getting things like MS. 41:52 Many people get a little of endorphin release 41:56 so, again those few good hormones... 41:57 when you get out into the sunshine 41:59 again, not too much but getting enough 42:01 great for you... 42:03 that release particularly coming through the eyes. 42:05 Reduced risk of depression... 42:07 stimulating even some of the Serotonin 42:09 which do get produced in the skin 42:12 we're not necessarily convinced 42:14 that that skin production of Serotonin 42:16 is making it into the brain, it may... it may not... 42:18 but there's no question that we get a little bit more production 42:20 when Serotonin is used as a feel-good molecule 42:23 even around the rest of the body. 42:24 Pause... 42:27 What about our Psychological health? 42:29 So, the World Health Organization 42:32 talks about Psychological wellness... broadly... 42:34 "a state of well-being in which the individual realizes 42:37 his or her own abilities, 42:39 can cope with the normal stresses of life, 42:41 can work productively and fruitfully, 42:43 and is able to make a contribution 42:45 to his or her community. " 42:46 That's a great definition of Psychological wellness. 42:49 Making a contribution... 42:50 feeling that you're part of something. 42:54 Well, to attain that state of well-being, 42:57 there are a couple of things that the body needs... 42:59 or a couple of things a person needs... 43:00 they need a clear sense of what the social norms are. 43:03 In other words, what does Society expect of me? 43:05 What their standards are, 43:07 and then they'll know whether they're meeting or not. 43:08 That has a lot to do with whether or not they feel 43:11 that they're being productive. 43:12 So, then they've got to be able to access 43:15 whatever the resources are, 43:16 personal... social... physical... 43:18 to enable them to make 43:20 a socially acceptable contribution. 43:22 So, we need to know what the standards are, 43:24 and then we need to be resourced 43:25 to make sure that we can make that contribution 43:27 and believe it or not, 43:29 everybody wants to make a positive contribution, 43:31 they certainly want to be thanked 43:33 for a positive contribution. 43:34 and then the resources both material and psychological 43:38 that enable resilience in the face of setbacks. 43:40 In other words, if they don't quite meet the standard 43:43 or whatever... 43:44 that they actually have some support 43:46 that allows them resilience so that they can bounce back 43:49 and try again 43:51 because rarely is there a person 43:52 that can actually make the contribution 43:55 that they want to make every time, 43:57 it usually takes a number of tries 43:59 and often a number of misses. 44:01 So, spirituality and health... 44:03 one of the interesting things here... 44:05 and this was published a few years ago, 44:06 "Research has clearly indicated that individuals who report 44:10 being more religious and spiritual 44:12 also report being better physical... 44:14 better physically and mentally... 44:16 having better physical and mental health. 44:18 Now, there was a criticism 44:20 when this paper was actually published 44:21 by the Reviewers saying that you didn't actually say... 44:24 when you said "Religious" broadly... 44:26 but in fact, most of your survey was done 44:28 within a Protestant Christian Community. 44:31 Pause... 44:33 Well I take that and I say, "Well, I could almost 44:35 limit this to research that has indicated 44:38 that individuals who report being Protestant-religious 44:41 and spiritual 44:43 also reported better physical and mental health 44:46 for very good reason, 44:47 "There's a high sense of individual value... 44:49 there's a high life satisfaction... 44:51 and increased psychosocial resourcefulness... 44:54 in other words, we have a community... 44:56 there's a community that we can rely on... 44:57 we know what are standards are... 44:59 and we hopefully are rewarded for being able to provide 45:03 that... that making the contribution to that Society. 45:09 So greater psychological coping strategies come 45:11 as a result of all of that... so very possible. 45:13 So, within the context of all of this, 45:15 where are and who are 45:17 the longest-lived populations on earth? 45:21 Well, I'm sure it was guessed 45:22 and Dan Buettner really identified some of this 45:26 back in 2005, so, quite a while ago now 45:28 wrote a book on it. 45:29 He was commissioned by... by the National Geographic... 45:32 the last book written in about... 45:34 the magazine came out in 2016 which was an update on it 45:37 and in fact, there were five communities... 45:44 you have Okinawa, Japan... 45:45 Ikaria, Greece... 45:47 Sardinia in Italy... 45:48 Nicoya in Costa Rica... 45:49 and Loma Linda... 45:51 and it was interesting... Loma Linda, California 45:53 was actually the Seventh-day Adventists 45:55 and I would hope that if we did the same thing 45:58 on Seventh-day Adventists in Sydney, 46:00 we would get the same thing. 46:01 Anyway, the key thing that he noted from here... 46:04 "The people inhabiting the Blue Zones 46:06 share common lifestyle characteristics 46:08 that contribute to their longevity... " 46:10 said Dan Beuttner. 46:11 There's Psycho-social health... 46:12 there's a purpose in life... 46:14 there's a religious affiliation 46:16 for most people of all ages are socially active 46:19 and integrated into their communities 46:21 so there's not the isolationism, 46:22 there's family being put ahead of others... 46:25 of other concerns... 46:27 there's vegetable-rich diets... especially with the legumes... 46:30 getting plenty of that in the diet, 46:32 there's constant moderate physical activity. 46:34 It wasn't that every community of Marathon Runners 46:38 were the longest lived... 46:39 in fact, there's damage you can do to your body 46:43 by over-exercising 46:44 and unfortunately, that does happen. 46:46 It is being constant, moderate physical activity 46:49 and ideally doing that as part of every-day life... 46:52 which is ideal. 46:53 Eliminating smoking goes without saying. 46:56 Now, importantly, within this context 46:59 "Seventh-day Adventists of Loma Linda... " he says... 47:01 "were the only... " oh this is the one that... 47:04 that I'm saying in California, "were the only 'Blue Zone' group 47:07 that were living in a typical fast paced, 47:11 stressful western environment... " 47:12 those of you that have been to Loma Linda, California, 47:15 would attest to the fact that if that can be a Blue Zone, 47:18 there is no reason why Sydney, Australia 47:21 or anywhere... in fact... 47:23 at least in some of the beautiful places 47:25 that we have here in this country, 47:27 could not also be a Blue Zone. 47:28 Because this is a typical fast-paced Californian 47:33 somewhat dry community. 47:36 And, it's interesting 47:37 that within the Adventist Christian faith, 47:38 it was said by Buettner, 47:40 he says, "Seventh-day Adventists do a couple of things right. " 47:42 they eat plant-based diet... 47:44 they have a social network that reinforces that right behavior, 47:47 their religious beliefs are also a big help... " he said, 47:51 "and particularly when it comes around to the Sabbath... " 47:54 so stress is something that has absolutely swept our community 47:58 and it is getting worse and often at a younger age 48:01 and there is just stress upon stress 48:03 and I'm not sure that social media has improved things much. 48:06 While, we tend to be connected... 48:08 it seems to be connected in a way 48:10 which somehow is not socially beneficial to us 48:15 in many respects so increases stress. 48:17 But in relation to... to stress... he says, 48:20 "about 84 percent of the health-care dollars are spent 48:22 because of bad food choices, inactivity and unmanaged stress, 48:26 and they have these cultural ways of managing stress 48:29 through their Sabbath. " 48:30 Pause... 48:33 more pause... 48:36 And, that's interesting that Adventists do have that 48:38 through the Sabbath, 48:40 and a lot of other Christians used to treat Sunday 48:43 as we would treat the Sabbath Day. 48:45 But we find now that most of the Sunday-keeping churches 48:50 don't actually treat Sunday as the Sabbath day, 48:52 they might go to church 48:53 on either the morning or afternoon service, 48:55 but the rest of the day is pretty much do 48:57 whatever you did any other day during the week 48:59 and so, there is a missing... 49:01 there is... there is something that's missing 49:03 because that Sabbath is not something that's set aside 49:05 from all of the cares 49:07 that they've been putting themselves through previously, 49:09 and I think Sabbath is a blessing 49:11 and we need to be very careful 49:12 that treating the Sabbath, of course, as Christ intended... 49:15 we maintain the Sabbath 49:17 and maintain the edges of the Sabbath. 49:19 So, what are the things that the Adventists did? 49:22 Well... Pure Air... 49:24 most Adventists would recognize... 49:26 or at least those that are in the know 49:27 would recognize these as the Eight Laws of Health. 49:31 Now, there are a couple of others that we could add to this 49:33 but potential... essentially... Pure Air... 49:36 and we've talked about that... good oxygenation... 49:38 breathing... posture... 49:39 we've got sunlight for Vitamin D... 49:41 we've got Abstemiousness... 49:42 no tobacco, coffee, tea or alcohol... 49:45 now, while most of the population 49:46 say, "Yes, tobacco... absolutely gone... " 49:49 they would even agree with you mostly 49:50 that alcohol is probably 49:52 generally for most people... not so good... 49:54 there is an extremely strong push 49:56 that coffee has got to be good for you. 49:58 In fact, I can give you numbers of articles 50:01 that have been written by Scientists 50:03 who are telling you that coffee is good for you... 50:05 caffeine is good for you... 50:06 talk for another time but really, I think that... 50:11 our community will eventually... 50:13 and Science will eventually come around... 50:15 I think we'll see a number of the negatives 50:17 associated with this. 50:18 Rest... we've talked about... 50:19 adequate quality... quantity... we need that kind of thing. 50:22 Exercise... we need to move... 50:24 Proper diet... reduced calories, vegetable-rich diet... 50:28 Use of water... Hydration... sanitation... even stimulation, 50:32 and then, Trust in God... 50:34 it's extremely important 50:36 which informs and impacts our psycho-social wellness 50:39 because we know what our standards are... 50:41 we have a basis for morality... 50:42 we understand what our relationship should be. 50:45 There is a real resilience that that creates 50:47 in all of us as a result. 50:49 Now, Ellen White published that in its fullest form, 50:52 now, while we know that there were earlier visions... 50:55 1863 being the earliest 50:57 and then, following on from there, 50:59 at least the most complete form of Ministry of Healing 51:01 was published in 1905 51:03 and there's a really interesting little co-relation 51:06 that I just want to show you here, 51:07 and this comes from the journal: Circulation 51:11 which is Cardiac Journal... 51:13 it was published in about 2011 51:14 but it was just showing the deaths 51:16 due to cardiovascular disease 51:17 and one of the things that I want you to notice 51:19 as you watch that graph as it moves up, 51:21 that that increase in deaths by cardiovascular disease 51:25 and consider the cardiovascular-disease deaths 51:28 as something which is kind of like a... 51:30 akin to the lifestyle diseases 51:32 and you could put the other diseases in there as well, 51:34 you could put Diabetes, 51:36 you could put some chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, 51:38 you could put Dementia in there as well 51:40 but if you think of... 51:41 that graph is showing as Heart diseases 51:43 an indicator of the lifestyle diseases, 51:45 what you see is that they really started to ramp up after 1905. 51:49 So, 1905... God knew that there would be 51:53 this real need in Society for an antidote 51:56 to the lifestyle-linked diseases. 51:58 Correct? 51:59 And what happened? 52:00 1905... published the Ministry of Healing 52:03 and those people that actually followed that counsel 52:07 and there were a lot of things that Science was telling them 52:10 around that time 52:11 which was not necessarily consistent 52:15 with what this is telling us, 52:16 and so, Science was telling them that... for many people 52:19 that if they had poor lungs, they needed to have more tobacco 52:21 there certainly were some issues 52:23 in a number of the fatty foods that were being used 52:27 and certainly not with tea and coffee 52:28 and yet, those people that put that into practice, 52:32 they were the ones who ended up living long... 52:37 long enough, in fact, and passing that on to generations 52:41 so that we could measure them down in the 21st Century 52:45 and show that those things worked. 52:48 So, improved psychosocial health... 52:50 Resistance to classical infections... 52:52 Improved community health... 52:53 Resistance to modern forms of disease... 52:55 all of those... 52:59 that were initially realized by faith in Inspiration. 53:02 Pause... 53:04 So, good Science 53:06 and as a Scientist, I'd like to say that Science is very good 53:09 at being able to eventually come to a... 53:11 an accurate conclusion 53:13 and it usually has a few deviations for a while, 53:15 but we can't simply just rely on Science 53:18 and I think ultimately, 53:19 while good Science will probably get there, 53:22 my question to you is, "Why wait 53:25 when Inspiration has already given us those boundaries?" 53:28 And I think it's already been proven 53:30 that we're safest when we stay within the boundaries 53:33 of Inspiration. 53:35 Yes, we should do good Science, 53:37 yes, we should work out some of the reasons 53:39 behind all of that, 53:40 but ultimately, we've actually had... 53:43 and Science is actually showing 53:44 that what we've had historically by Inspiration, 53:47 is working beautifully 53:48 to be able to send us into a position of health. 53:52 So, by God's grace, let's stay there. |
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